Musings

"In change is the greener pastures we seek. That change is waiting within.

I am reminded of that story about the songbird in the cage. The keeper feels sadness suddenly for the singing birds imprisonment and so she (or he) opens the door but the bird becomes terrified. It does not fly out. It clings to the cage. In a way, our mind can become like this. We get so wrapped up in our day-to-day experience we loose the moment, the Now, and we become trapped in what was and what could be. Neither here nor there we suffer."

"We all have a special responsibility to help create a better world, because material progress alone is clearly insufficient for a happier human society. No one loses, and everyone gains by a shared universal sense of responsibility to this planet and all living things on it."